Women Political Leaders (WPL) document how women leaders are reshaping the nature of politics. WPL: The greater the representation of women in cabinets and legislatures, the more women are on equal legal and economic footing.

Brazil is at the bottom of the region in terms of female parliamentarians. The woman with the most power to push the feminist agenda right now is not a minister or parliamentarian but the wife of the president, Janja Lula da Silva, says Silvana Koch-Mehrin.